2024-09-052024-09-052008Guisado Lízar, J.L., Jiménez Morales, F.,...,Fernández, F. (2008). Application of Cellular Automata Algorithms to the Parallel Simulation of Laser Dynamics. En Optimization Techniques for Solving Complex Problems (pp. 325-345). John Wiley & Sons, Inc..978-047029332-4https://hdl.handle.net/11441/162272In this chapter we review the use of a biologically inspired heuristic technique— cellular automata (CA)—as a problem solver for one of the most paradigmatic complex systems: the laser. CAs are a class of mathematical system that can be used to model spatiotemporal phenomena, characterized by the discreteness of all of its variables: space, time, and normally state variables. An important property of CAs is their intrinsic parallel character. Therefore, they are specially well suited to be implemented very efficiently on parallel computers.application/pdf21engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Cellular automataLaserCAsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess10.1002/9780470411353.ch19